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2. RS Agarawal’s book on Verbal and Non-Verbal Aptitude. – for Logical reasoning

questions.

PG Degrees via Distance Learning

Those with optionals like Public Administration, Socio, Political Science,

History (ie. courses for which IGNOU offers PG Degrees), I suggest you

pick up Distance Learning Post graduation course from IGNOU. Fees are verylow so If you’ve Sociology then go for M.A. Sociology. (These courses are

also available in Hindi Medium)

It’ll help you hit two birds with one stone-you get their quality study material

+ you get PG Degree at home.

Third bird = doing JRF, Ph.D etc and become a Professor in worst case

scenario.

Yes most PG courses have duration of two years. But according to IGNOU

rules, they can be completed in a span of five years. So you can give exam for

first year in 2013 and second year may be in 2018.You may try for some other courses of IGNOU like MCA, MBA etc.

depending on your alternative-career ambition.

Why IGNOU’s Distance Learning Programs?

If you join a regular course from a decent college: fees will be high and, there

will be hardly any time left for UPSC preparation.

IGNOU courses are quite easy to crack. You don’t have to prepare much for

their term end exams (just solve last five years’ paper (available on their official website)- all questions are repeated!).

So go to the official website of IGNOU and download the free Prospectus and

see details of all the courses offered procedure to get admission.

Click me to download that PDF file (ENGLISH).

Click me to download that PDF file (HINDI).

For more, Visit: http://www.ignou.ac.in/ignou/studentzone/downloads/3

And IGNOU’s distance learning programs are recognized under UGC so your Degree is ‘legit’ for all Government job exams.

And Given the “academic inflation”, every tom dick and harry is now a Post

Graduate. So if and when you go for private company job interviews without

PG degree in your file= doesn’t look good.

IFS, IES, Statistical Services

You may also go for IGNOU courses in Economics or Statistics to become

eligible for UPSC’s Indian Economy Services (IES) and Indian statisticalservices.

If you’re an Engineer (non-IT field) or B.Sc with Agri/Zoology/Forestry etc.

courses then try for Indian Forest Services (IFS).

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But please goto the official si te of UPSC and check their notifications

and eligibility criteria for each of these exams.

Computer Course Certificate

For Bank Exams and some State PSC exam (such as GPSC), you need a fancy

certificate to prove that you know computers. (Even if you're proficient with

computers without formal degree or course, you still need a certificate inyour file.)

So Give an exam called "CCC" [Course on Computer Concepts].

It is conducted by DOEACC, [new name is National Institute of Electronics

and Information Technology], which is an autonomous society under

Government of India, therefore its fancy certificate is 'legit' for Government

job exams (just like IGNOUs').

Pick up some Activity

For example some NGO work, Part time job, social service or anything else

that can look good in your biodata file during Interviews of UPSC, Bank, State

PSC or private company. It’s not like you’re going to study for 18 hours a day

from 1st August 2012 till May 2013. There are plenty of hours that can be

utilized to make your “file” look better for the interviews.

Second Task : UPSC attempt for 2013

August to November 2012

Devote entirely to finish the syllabus of your two optional + GS (Mains)

And make revision notes of both optional subjects and for Static portions of

GS Mains, including 2 marker freedom fighters.

^ this is essential / compulsory / must/ no excuse.

Apart from that, you can

Prepare Skeletal essays for last 19 years’ papers.

http://mrunal.org/2011/12/analysis-essay-topic-trends-in-last-19.html

If literature is one of your optional- then go through all the good reference books and write high quality answers for all of last 10 years’ UPSC papers.

(reason: in most of the literature Optionals, the questions are repeated.)

+ Maintain current affairs diary from daily newspaper reading. How to read

newspapers- already explained in this article: http://mrunal.org/2012/06/current-

affairs-ias.html

So next time whenever you clear prelims, much of your time will be saved in

doing first hand study / notes making. And then you have to only do revision +

current affairs + answer practice.

January to May of Next year (2013)

Preparation for Preliminary exam 2013. Study plan would be more or less the

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same as given for CSAT 2012 earlier in this article:

http://mrunal.org/2012/02/study-plan-topicwise-plausible-booklist.html

Coaching or no Coaching?

Some of those who failed in CSAT 2012, are asking “should I get coaching for

next attempt?”

Well, coaching is not the panacea for UPSC. And please donot have thementality that “ I failed in CSAT-2012 because I did not have coaching .”

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